Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being extremely hydrophobic or repellent to water or of not being wetted.
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The key to long [battery] life is a property superhydrophobicity. This occurs when a drop of electorlyte or other liquid sits on top of a roughened nanostructured surface instead of wetting it. Zap the droplet with a burst of electricity or heat, however, and it wets the surface in a matter of milliseconds.
2006 November, “Batteries that Keep”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 128, number 11, page 22
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Englishhydro-
- Englishsuperhydrophobicity
From super- + hydro- + -phobic + -ity.
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superhydrophobicity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superhydrophobicity
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